June Secret Subject Swap - Take Two! Casting Call!

It's that time again, Secret Subject Swap time!  Karen from Baking In A Tornado organizes this great shindig for bloggers to step outside their comfort zones and have some fun!  This week, 12 brave souls each picked a secret subject for someone else to write about, and were assigned a secret subject to interpret in their own style.  I love the "in their own style" part;  you see your prompt and then get to write about it in any way you choose.  Not like in high school where if you don't answer the question the exact way the teacher meant you lose half the credit.  Stupid.  Nope, this is totally individualized and creative and Fun!  We're all simultaneously divulging our topics, so put your feet up and check out everybody's creativity!

 

 

http://BakingInATornado.com                                Baking In A Tornado

http://singlemumplusone.blogspot.com                   Searching for Sanity

http://www.outsmartedmommy.com                       Outsmarted Mommy

http://indianamericanmom.com                              Indian American Mom

http://dailydoseofdamn.blogspot.com/                    Daily Dose of Damn

http://aworkingmomswhoas.blogspot.com/             A Working Mom's "Whoas"

http://dawnsdisaster.blogspot.com                         Dawn’s Disaster

www.akashicwindow.blogspot.com                         Akashic Aisles: The Basement View

www.thepursuitofnormal.blogspot.com                   The Pursuit of Normal

www.homeonderanged.com                                   Home on Deranged

http:// www.eviljoyspeaks.wordpress.com               Evil Joy Speaks

 

My Secret Subject was submitted by Searching For Sanity.  (She just got a new job, BTW, so go give her some congrats!).  My subject is:

 

***You have just been contacted by a movie director wanting to make a movie about your life. Who will you ask to play you in the movie?***

 

Well.  Should I choose an actress who plays characters similar to me?  Or an actress who in real life is similar to me?  Or someone who looks like me?  Or someone I'm envious of and would squeal like a pig if they even acknowledged me?
 
Tough one.  Ok, this became a group effort.  I was struggling, so I decided to ask some of the kids their opinions (I know, what was I thinking??). 
 
I asked J, my 14 year old son; A, my 13 year old daughter; and T, my 18 year old daughter.

 

Here's some of the responses I got:

 

J:  "Mario Lopez!"    Ummm...

 

A:  "Jackie Chan!"    WHAT THE?!?!?!

 

A again:  "Justin Bieber!"       ..........

 

J:  "Yeah, he looks like a girl."    <eye roll>

 

J again:  "The girl from 'The Hunger Games', she's hot."      Eww.  I do not wish to think about who my boy finds "hot". 

 

T:  "Jennie Garth, because you look alike."    T is my new favorite.

 

A:  "Julianne Hough from 'Safe Haven'."     I'll take it.

 

My ex-husband had sent me a text asking something about one of the kids, so I threw the question out there to him too.  (Yeah, I do not know what is wrong with me.)

 

His response:  "The chick from 'The Notebook', or Gwyneth Paltrow."     Huh.  He must have been in a rare good mood. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Surprisingly (?) none of these answers helped.  The first people I had thought of were Kate Gosselin and Octomom.  Only because they have a lot of kids.  But, yuck.

 

 

Then I thought of Florence Henderson as Carol Brady; large family, blended family, both accurate.  But I don't know if 1970's housewife Carol could deal with some of the craziness that is mi vida.  Mi vida loca.

 

 

And then it hit me:  Jennifer Garner.  There seems to be some similarities in our real lives, and she has had such a broad range of tv and movie roles that she's not really stuck in one category.                               

 

Jen, as I affectionately call her, (not really, but it's shorter to type) seems to be a down home family girl who loves being a mom and wife, which I totally relate to.  She's kind of girl-next-doorish; not flamboyant or over the top, just a nice girl who is pretty down to earth.  Real.  Just being herself.  Kind of a sweetheart, but if you messed with her kids, I bet her mama bear instincts would come out and she would do some damage!  She also has a spark and a drive to step outside the box and do more; not because her family isn't enough, but because she wants to, and she knows how to find the balance.  This isn't an aspect of my life I'm exploring too deeply at the moment, but I definitely have learned that while it is amazing to be a mother and I love it more than life, there are other things out in the world that don't revolve around my kids, and those things can be exciting.  A couple of facts I found about Jen that are relatable:

 

-Jennifer Garner wasn't a fan of baseball before meeting her Boston Red Sox-loving husband Ben Affleck. "The more I watched – 'cause it was on all the time – the more he explained, the more I like it. Now I really like it," she told Allure in 2007.    -I was never a sports fan, until I had children that were natural born athletes, and I began spending the majority of my time at, preparing for, and/or talking about sports.

 

-Jennifer Garner almost got arrested the day of her prom. She and a friend were sunbathing topless in a park when police spotted them. "Can you imagine calling your parents [and saying], 'I was laying out naked,'" she told Teen People.    -Yeah, I have a few stories from when I was a teenager that my mom still doesn't want to hear about. 

 

-In 2010 she said:  "I understand that being an actress as well as being at home isn't some heroic thing," she says of being a working mom. "That doesn't mean it isn't confusing or difficult – especially that question of how you find a balance."    -When I was a single mom working full time, people often exclaimed over how much I did.  But I never felt like it was something to be looked up to, just something that had to be done.  But that didn't mean it wasn't hard, damn hard, and exhausting. 

                                                      

                              So while Jennifer Garner and I are by no means clones, I think there's definitely some similarities,

and I bet she could take my life story and nail it. 

 

 

Now, about those royalty checks?